Workers, looking much like the characters in a popular television commercial, sweep cranberries toward a submerged vacuum pump that will carry the freshly harvested fruit to a cleaner and then to waiting trucks near Plymouth, Mass.

Much of the holiday fare brought to local tables Thanksgiving Day has been raised in the area one time or another. And that includes the tart red fruit American Indians once called "ibimi" or "bitter berry."
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